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Older teenagers have turned their backs on Facebook, an EU-funded study has found. Young people are opting for alternative social networks like Twitter and WhatsApp, while the "worst people of all, their parents, continue to use the service."

Analyzing how 16-18 year-old teenagers from eight EU countries
use Facebook, researchers came to the conclusion that youngsters
are no hooked on Facebook any longer while their parents are.
According to the head anthropologist on the research team, Daniel
Miller, "mostly they feel embarrassed even to be associated
with it."

"Where once parents worried about their children joining
Facebook, the children now say it is their family that insists
they stay there to post about their lives. Parents have worked
out how to use the site and see it as a way for the family to
remain connected. In response, the young are moving on to cooler
things," Miller, who is also professor of Material Culture
at University College London, explained in his article for the
academic news website, The Conversation.

He said year 2013 marked the start of what looks likely to be
"a sustained decline" of what had been "the most
pervasive" of all social networking sites.